Hair Loss After Weight Loss and After Surgery: The Shedding That Follows a Shock

The woman in the clinic waiting room is doing a quiet calculation. Her gastric sleeve operation was eleven weeks ago, the scale has dropped forty pounds, and this morning she pulled what looked like a small hamster out of the shower drain. Is she sick? Did the anesthesia do something? Her surgeon never mentioned this part.

She is not alone, and that is why hair loss after surgery is one of the most searched hair questions right now. As of March 2026, two things have collided: record numbers of people losing weight quickly, whether through bariatric operations or through injectable weight-management medicines such as semaglutide (Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Zepbound), and a social media wave of before-and-after scalp photos with alarming captions.

The medical story is less dramatic than the captions and more useful. The hair is not dying. It is reacting, on a schedule, to a shock that is already behind you.

What is hair loss after surgery, and why does it start weeks later?

Hair does not fall out on the operating table. It falls out on your pillow, roughly two to three months afterward, and that delay is the single most useful clue to what is happening.

Every scalp hair runs through a cycle. Anagen is the growing phase, which lasts two to six years and accounts for about 85–90 percent of hairs at any moment. Telogen is the resting phase, lasting around three months, after which the hair is released and a new one begins behind it. Normally only 10–15 percent of follicles are resting, which is why shedding 50–100 hairs a day is ordinary housekeeping.

A major physical stressor scrambles that staggered rhythm. Surgery, general anesthesia, blood loss, fasting, fever, a sudden calorie deficit: any of these can send a much larger fraction of follicles into telogen simultaneously. Dermatologists call the result telogen effluvium, a diffuse, non-scarring shed triggered by a shock to the body. Because telogen lasts about three months, the hairs that entered rest around the time of your operation are released, as a group, roughly a season later.

Three features set this apart from other causes. The loss is diffuse rather than patchy, often most noticeable at the temples and crown. The scalp looks healthy, without redness, scale or shiny bald spots. And the shed hairs carry a small white bulb at the root, the signature of a hair that completed its cycle rather than one that broke mid-shaft.

Hair loss after surgery, in other words, is almost never a sign that the operation went wrong. It is a sign that your body prioritized healing over hair for a few weeks, which is exactly what you would want it to do.

What changed recently: why hair loss after surgery and weight loss is trending

Telogen effluvium has been described in textbooks for decades, so the biology is not new. The population experiencing it is.

Since the US approval of semaglutide (Wegovy) for chronic weight management in June 2021 and of tirzepatide (Zepbound) in November 2023, millions of adults have lost weight at a pace once seen mainly after bariatric surgery. In the pivotal trials for those medicines, hair loss was reported more often among people taking the active drug than among those on placebo: roughly 3 percent versus 1 percent in the semaglutide program and about 5 percent versus 1 percent for tirzepatide. Investigators attributed this to the speed and size of the weight loss rather than to a direct effect on follicles, which fits the telogen effluvium pattern.

Bariatric surgery volumes have climbed in parallel, and observational series published over the past few years report hair shedding in roughly a third to more than half of patients during the first year after sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass, most of it in months three to six.

Two reference points anchor the current clinical consensus. The Cleveland Clinic’s patient guide to telogen effluvium describes the characteristic 2–3 month lag and expected recovery over 6–12 months. And the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements maintains that, outside true deficiency, there is insufficient evidence that biotin improves hair growth, a message that matters because biotin gummies are the most heavily marketed response to the trend.

So what changed is scale and visibility, not mechanism. A condition dermatologists once saw mostly after childbirth, severe illness or major surgery is now showing up in weight-loss support groups by the thousand.

Hair loss after weight loss: why losing pounds fast can cost you hair

Hair is metabolically expensive and biologically optional. When the body senses a sudden energy shortfall, follicles are among the first tissues told to stand down.

That explains why hair loss after weight loss tracks the speed of the loss more than the total. A person who drops 15 percent of body weight over eight months may shed little; a person who drops the same amount in three months often sheds noticeably. Crash diets, very-low-calorie plans, bariatric surgery and the newer injectable medicines all share the same trigger: a rapid, sustained deficit.

Several threads tangle together in that deficit:

• Calories themselves. Below a certain intake, the body downshifts non-essential functions, and anagen is one of them.
• Protein. Hair shafts are built from keratin, a protein. Bariatric patients in particular struggle to meet the protein targets their teams set, because a smaller stomach fills quickly and appetite falls.
• Micronutrients. Iron, zinc and sometimes vitamin D or B12 drop after gastric bypass because absorption changes, and after any aggressive diet because intake falls. Low iron stores in particular are repeatedly associated with diffuse shedding in observational studies.
• The surgical shock itself. Anesthesia, blood loss and the healing response pile a second trigger on top of the dietary one, which is one reason bariatric shedding can be heavier than medicine-related shedding.

The hopeful part is also mechanistic. Once weight stabilizes and intake normalizes, the signal that pushed follicles into rest disappears. New anagen hairs are already growing beneath the ones you are losing, which is why many people notice fine, short regrowth at the hairline even while the shed is still underway. The shed and the recovery overlap; they are not sequential chapters.

Is hair loss a side effect of anesthesia?

Not in the way most people fear. There is no good evidence that anesthetic drugs themselves damage follicles or trigger shedding. What anesthesia does is accompany a major physiological event, and it is that event, surgery with its blood loss, tissue injury, fasting and inflammatory response, that tips follicles into rest.

Clinicians reach that conclusion for two reasons. First, telogen effluvium follows surgeries done under regional or spinal anesthesia too, not just general anesthesia. Second, the same shedding pattern follows events with no anesthesia at all: childbirth, high fever, severe infection, crash dieting. The common denominator is the stress on the body, not the drugs used to sleep through it.

One genuine exception deserves a plain explanation. Positional alopecia, sometimes called pressure alopecia, is a localized patch of hair loss caused by prolonged, unrelieved pressure on one part of the scalp during a long operation, typically several hours in a fixed position. The pressure reduces blood flow to that patch of skin. It shows up within days to a few weeks as a single, well-defined bald area, sometimes preceded by scalp tenderness or a small sore at the site. It is uncommon, surgical teams work to prevent it with head repositioning and padding, and the hair usually regrows over months, though a small minority develop a permanent patch if the pressure was severe. Because it is focal rather than diffuse, it looks nothing like telogen effluvium.

Scalp surgery, including Mohs micrographic surgery for skin cancer, can also cause temporary shedding around the wound as local blood supply and nerve signaling recover. That ring of loss typically fills in over several months.

If you have a single bald patch after surgery rather than overall thinning, mention it to your surgical team; the cause and the outlook are different.

How long does hair loss after surgery last? A month-by-month timeline

The waiting is the hardest part, mostly because nobody tells you what the schedule looks like. Here is the typical arc of telogen effluvium after an operation or a period of rapid weight loss. Individual timing varies by a few weeks either way.

Time since the trigger	What is usually happening	What you may notice
Weeks 0–8	Follicles shift into telogen; nothing visible yet	Hair looks normal; you may have forgotten the link
Months 2–3	Resting hairs release in a wave	Shedding jumps sharply; clumps in the brush and drain
Months 3–6	Peak shed, then gradual slowing	Ponytail feels thinner; temples and part line look sparse
Months 4–8	New anagen hairs reach visible length	Short, fine regrowth at the hairline, sometimes a different texture at first
Months 6–12	Density rebuilds	Volume returns; full length takes longer because hair grows about half an inch a month
Beyond 12 months	Should be resolved	Continued thinning suggests another cause worth evaluating

Two points about that table. The shedding phase feels longer than it is because every shower becomes a measurement. Counting hairs rarely helps; comparing a photo of your part line taken today with one taken six weeks ago is a calmer and more accurate gauge.

The second point concerns repeated triggers. If weight loss continues at pace for a year, or if a second operation follows the first, the shed can be prolonged rather than resolved, since each new shock restarts the clock for another group of follicles. That is not permanent loss; it is overlapping waves. Shedding that persists beyond six months without an obvious ongoing trigger, however, moves out of the typical pattern and into territory a clinician should look at.

Is it telogen effluvium or something else? How doctors tell

A shock-triggered shed is the most likely explanation after surgery or rapid weight loss, but it is not the only one, and the alternatives have different outlooks. Dermatologists sort them with a few straightforward tools.

History carries most of the weight. A clear trigger two to four months earlier, diffuse rather than patchy loss, and a scalp that looks and feels normal all point toward telogen effluvium. A family history of thinning at the crown or temples, or loss that was already creeping in before the operation, raises the possibility that the shock has unmasked androgenetic alopecia, the common hereditary pattern loss in which follicles gradually miniaturize under the influence of androgen hormones. The two frequently coexist: the effluvium resolves, but the underlying pattern remains and becomes the thing you notice.

The pull test is low-tech and informative. The clinician grasps a small bundle of about 40–60 hairs and tugs gently. In active telogen effluvium, several hairs with white bulbs come away easily; in a quiet scalp, almost none do.

Trichoscopy, a magnified look at the scalp with a handheld dermatoscope, helps distinguish patterns. Lots of short regrowing hairs of uniform caliber suggests recovering effluvium. Hairs of very different thicknesses in the same area suggest pattern loss. Exclamation-point hairs and smooth round patches suggest alopecia areata, an autoimmune condition. Redness, scale, pustules or shiny skin without visible follicle openings suggest a scarring process, which is urgent because scarred follicles do not regrow.

Blood tests are chosen by the history. Ferritin, the protein that stores iron, along with a full blood count, thyroid function, and after bariatric surgery zinc, vitamin D and B12, are the ones most often checked. A biopsy is reserved for cases where the picture is unclear or scarring is suspected.

Iron, protein, zinc and vitamin D: the nutrition link, graded

Nutrition is where the hair loss conversation most often tips from evidence into wishful thinking, so it is worth being specific about what is known.

Iron has the strongest association. Multiple observational studies have found lower ferritin levels among people with diffuse shedding than among controls, and iron deficiency is listed as a recognized contributor to hair loss by MedlinePlus, the NHS and the Mayo Clinic. What remains uncertain is the threshold at which low stores matter for hair and whether correcting iron in someone who is not frankly deficient speeds regrowth; randomized trials addressing that question are small and inconsistent. Checking ferritin after rapid weight loss is reasonable because deficiency is common, especially in menstruating women and after gastric bypass, and because the fix for deficiency has benefits well beyond the scalp.

Protein matters for a plain structural reason: hair is keratin. Severe protein restriction produces thinning and changes in hair color and texture, a pattern documented in malnutrition. Whether extra protein above an adequate intake helps hair is unproven. The practical point for bariatric patients is to meet the targets their team set rather than to chase more.

Zinc deficiency causes hair loss, and zinc is commonly low after bypass surgery. The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements notes, however, that zinc supplementation in people with normal levels has not been shown to help hair and that excess zinc can impair copper absorption.

Vitamin D receptors are present in follicles and low levels show up in some studies of hair loss, but the evidence is observational and causation is unproven.

The pattern across all four is the same: correcting a documented deficiency is sensible medicine; megadosing in the absence of deficiency is not supported and sometimes carries risk.

What the evidence actually says

Readers deserve to know not just what is claimed but how firmly it stands. Here is the evidence graded by type, from strongest to weakest.

Well established, based on consistent clinical description across decades and multiple observational cohorts: telogen effluvium is a real, common and self-limiting response to surgery, severe illness, childbirth and rapid weight loss; it begins about 2–3 months after the trigger; it resolves in most people within 6–12 months once the trigger has passed. No randomized trial is needed to prove a mechanism that is visible in the hair cycle itself, and no mainstream body disputes it.

Supported by randomized trial data, but for a different condition: topical minoxidil has placebo-controlled trials showing increased hair counts in androgenetic alopecia. Its benefit specifically in telogen effluvium rests on small studies and clinical experience, not large trials. Evidence is moderate for pattern loss, weak for shock-related shedding.

Observational associations only: low ferritin, low zinc and low vitamin D appear more often in people with diffuse shedding. Correction is justified for health, but improvement in hair as a direct result has not been convincingly shown in controlled trials.

Weak or absent: biotin in people without deficiency (the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements rates the evidence insufficient); most marketed hair supplements; rosemary oil, which has a single small trial of modest quality; onion juice, scalp massage and caffeine shampoos, each resting on tiny or uncontrolled studies.

Expert opinion: gentle hair handling, avoiding tight styles and heat, and spacing out chemical processing during the shed. Sensible, low risk, unproven to change the course.

The honest summary: time and a stable, adequately nourished body are the only interventions with strong support. Everything else is either borrowed from other conditions or still awaiting a decent trial.

What are some OTC products for hair thinning, and do they help this kind of shedding?

The pharmacy shelf is long and the evidence is short, so it helps to separate categories.

Topical minoxidil is the one over-the-counter product with a genuine body of randomized trial data. Those trials were conducted in androgenetic alopecia, where minoxidil lengthens the growth phase and increases the proportion of follicles in anagen. For telogen effluvium the data are thinner; some dermatologists offer it to shorten the recovery stretch, particularly when pattern loss coexists, while others point out that most people recover fully without it. Two realities catch users off guard: a temporary increase in shedding during the first weeks, as resting hairs are pushed out early, and the fact that gains are maintained only with continued use. Whether it is appropriate for you, and in what form, is a decision to make with a clinician who has examined your scalp, not from a box label.

Biotin is the most advertised and least supported. The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements states that biotin deficiency is rare and that evidence for a hair benefit in people with adequate levels is insufficient. High-dose biotin also interferes with certain laboratory tests, including troponin assays used to assess heart attacks and some thyroid tests, a problem the FDA flagged in 2017. Anyone taking it should tell every clinician who orders bloodwork.

Caffeine shampoos, peptide serums and so-called hair-growth gummies rely on small manufacturer-sponsored studies or none at all. They are unlikely to harm, and equally unlikely to alter a shed that is already on its way to resolving.

Iron, zinc and vitamin D supplements belong to a different logic: useful if a blood test shows deficiency, unnecessary and occasionally harmful if it does not. Testing first is the evidence-based route.

What are some home remedies for hair fall that hold up?

Kitchen-cabinet remedies travel fast online, and the honest position is that a few are harmless comforts, a couple have a whisper of data, and none has been shown to speed recovery from telogen effluvium.

Rosemary oil is the one with a study people cite: a small trial in men with pattern hair loss compared diluted rosemary oil with a minoxidil preparation and found similar hair counts after six months. The trial was small, in a different condition, and has not been convincingly replicated. Applying it to the scalp is unlikely to harm if diluted, and essential oils undiluted can irritate skin.

Onion juice rests on one tiny study in alopecia areata, the autoimmune form of patchy hair loss, which has nothing in common with shock-related shedding beyond the word alopecia.

Scalp massage has a small uncontrolled study suggesting increased hair thickness after months of daily sessions. It feels good, it costs nothing, and it is not a treatment in any evidence-based sense.

Coconut oil reduces protein loss from the hair shaft and makes existing hair less brittle, which is useful cosmetically during a shed because breakage on top of shedding compounds the thinning. It does not affect follicles.

What does hold up is gentler handling, which addresses the second half of the problem. During the shed, hairs that are about to release will release regardless, but tight ponytails, heat styling, aggressive brushing and chemical processing can break the hairs that are staying. A wide-tooth comb on damp hair, loose styles, and postponing bleach or relaxers for a few months are practical and supported by clinical common sense rather than trials.

None of this replaces a conversation with a clinician if the shedding is heavy, prolonged or patchy.

How to promote hair growth while you wait

The uncomfortable truth is that you cannot hurry the hair cycle. Anagen hairs grow about half an inch a month whether you are anxious about them or not. What you can do is remove obstacles, and after surgery or weight loss there are usually a few.

Stabilize the trigger first. For weight loss, that means working with your care team on a pace that is sustainable rather than maximal; for post-surgical patients it means letting recovery proceed without a second shock such as a crash diet layered on top. Follicles return to growth when the alarm signal stops.

Eat enough, and eat enough protein, within whatever plan your clinicians have set. Bariatric teams build protein goals and supplement schedules into their programs for exactly this reason; following them is the single most evidence-aligned step a post-surgical patient can take.

Get tested rather than guessing. A ferritin level, a full blood count and thyroid function, plus the micronutrients your surgical team routinely monitors, will tell you whether there is a deficiency to correct. Correcting one that exists is medicine; supplementing one that does not is marketing.

Protect what is growing. New anagen hairs are fine and short for months. Heat, tension and chemicals can snap them before they ever reach the length where they add visible density.

Sleep and stress deserve a mention, not because stress relief regrows hair on its own, but because psychological stress is itself a recognized trigger of telogen effluvium and sustained stress can prolong a shed.

If pattern hair loss has been unmasked alongside the shed, treatments with trial evidence exist, and a dermatologist can discuss whether they fit your situation. For the shock-related part, patience remains the active ingredient.

Common myths about hair loss after surgery and weight loss

The viral versions of this topic get the biology backward in predictable ways. Here are the claims that circulate most, and what the evidence actually supports.

Myth: the anesthesia poisoned my follicles. There is no evidence that anesthetic agents damage hair. The same shedding follows surgery under spinal anesthesia and follows events with no anesthesia at all. The shock is the trigger, not the drug.

Myth: the weight-loss injection is making my hair fall out permanently. In the semaglutide and tirzepatide trials, hair loss was reported more often than with placebo, but the pattern, timing and recovery match telogen effluvium from rapid weight loss, not a direct toxic effect. Permanent loss has not been demonstrated. Anyone worried should discuss it with the prescribing clinician rather than stopping or adjusting the medicine on their own.

Myth: if I take enough biotin the shed will stop. The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements rates the evidence for biotin in non-deficient people as insufficient, and high doses can distort heart and thyroid lab tests.

Myth: shedding means the hair will not come back. The opposite is closer to the truth. Each shed telogen hair has a new anagen hair forming beneath it; shedding is often the first visible sign that the cycle is restarting.

Myth: washing less will save hair. Hairs that have finished telogen are already detached at the root. Skipping washes only means they accumulate and come out in a bigger clump on wash day, which feels worse and changes nothing.

Myth: the shed proves I lost weight too fast and should stop dieting. Rate of loss does matter, but the right response is a conversation with your care team about pace and nutrition, not abandoning a medically supervised plan.

When to see a doctor

Most shock-related shedding needs reassurance and time rather than treatment, but some patterns call for a clinical look, and a few are urgent.

Arrange an appointment with your primary care clinician or a dermatologist if any of the following apply:

• Shedding continues heavily beyond six months, or is still noticeable a year after the trigger with no new shock in between.
• Loss is patchy, with distinct round or oval bald areas rather than overall thinning.
• The scalp itself is changing: redness, scaling, pain, burning, itching, pustules, or smooth shiny skin where follicle openings are no longer visible. These suggest an inflammatory or scarring process, and scarred follicles do not recover, so early assessment matters.
• A single bald patch appears within days or weeks after a long operation, which may be positional alopecia and should be reported to the surgical team.
• Hair is also thinning on the eyebrows, lashes or body, which points away from telogen effluvium.
• You have other symptoms alongside the shed: persistent fatigue, breathlessness, palpitations, feeling cold, unexplained weight change beyond what was planned, heavy menstrual bleeding, or new skin and nail changes. These can indicate iron deficiency, thyroid dysfunction or another systemic cause.
• You had bariatric surgery and have not had the routine blood monitoring your program recommends.
• The shed is affecting your mood, sleep or willingness to leave the house. Distress is a legitimate reason to seek help, and clinicians take it seriously.

If you are taking a weight-management medicine such as semaglutide or tirzepatide and are worried about hair loss, raise it with the clinician who prescribed it. Do not stop, pause or change the medicine on your own; the decision about whether and how to adjust treatment belongs to that prescriber, who can weigh the shed against the reasons the medicine was started.

Living through the shed: the practical and the emotional

Dermatology textbooks describe telogen effluvium as benign and self-limiting, which is accurate and also completely misses how it feels to watch your hair thin after you have just done something hard for your health.

Some practical choices help the months pass. A shorter cut can make thinning less visible and reduce the weight pulling on fragile new growth. Volumizing products and a part moved slightly to the side change how light hits the scalp. Root-tinting powders and sprays, widely used by people with pattern loss, hide a sparse part line without touching the follicles. Silk or satin pillowcases reduce friction breakage overnight. None of these is medicine; all of them are reasonable ways to feel more like yourself.

Keep a record rather than a tally. Photograph your part and hairline in the same light once a month. The daily view in the mirror is too close to show progress; a side-by-side taken eight weeks apart almost always does, and it is the fastest reassurance available.

Tell your care team even when you suspect the answer is to wait. A bariatric program will often fold hair questions into the nutrition visit, check the labs that matter, and confirm that protein and supplement plans are on track. A quick visit that ends in reassurance is a good outcome, not a wasted one.

Finally, remember what the shed is telling you. Follicles stepped back because the body was busy healing a wound or adapting to a new weight. They are stepping forward again. The fine hairs at your temples in month five are the proof, and by the time the anniversary of your surgery or your weight-loss milestone arrives, most people are no longer thinking about their hair at all.

Frequently asked questions

Is hair loss a side effect of anesthesia?

No convincing evidence links anesthetic drugs themselves to hair loss. Shedding after an operation is telogen effluvium triggered by the physical stress of surgery, blood loss and fasting, and it occurs after regional anesthesia too. The one anesthesia-related exception is positional alopecia, a localized patch caused by prolonged scalp pressure during very long procedures, which is uncommon and usually regrows.

Why is my hair falling out so badly 20 weeks after sleeve surgery?

Twenty weeks sits squarely in the peak shedding window for telogen effluvium after bariatric surgery, which typically runs from month three to month six. Rapid weight loss, reduced protein intake and the surgical shock all push follicles into rest at once. Shedding usually slows after this point. Ask your bariatric team to check ferritin, zinc, vitamin D and B12 and to confirm your protein plan.

How long does hair loss after weight loss last?

Shedding from rapid weight loss usually begins 2–3 months after the loss starts, peaks for a few weeks and tapers off by month six, with visible regrowth over 6–12 months once weight stabilizes. If weight loss continues at pace, new waves can overlap and prolong the shed. Loss persisting beyond a year, or becoming patchy, warrants evaluation for another cause.

Will my hair grow back after surgery?

In telogen effluvium, yes, in the large majority of cases. The follicles are not damaged; they have paused and are already producing new hairs beneath the ones that shed. Fine regrowth is typically visible by months four to eight. Full density takes longer because hair grows about half an inch a month. If an underlying hereditary pattern loss was unmasked, that part may persist and can be discussed with a dermatologist.

What are some OTC products for hair thinning that have real evidence?

Topical minoxidil is the only over-the-counter product backed by randomized trials, though those trials were in hereditary pattern loss rather than shock-related shedding. Biotin lacks supporting evidence in people without deficiency and can interfere with lab tests. Iron, zinc and vitamin D help only if a blood test shows deficiency. Discuss any product with a clinician before starting it.

What are some home remedies for hair fall that actually work?

None has been shown to speed recovery from telogen effluvium. Rosemary oil has one small trial in pattern loss, scalp massage a tiny uncontrolled study, and onion juice a single study in autoimmune alopecia areata. Gentle handling helps most: loose styles, a wide-tooth comb on damp hair, less heat, and postponing chemical processing protect the hairs that are staying and the fine new ones coming in.

How can I promote hair growth after a big weight loss?

Stabilize the trigger: work with your care team on a sustainable pace, meet the protein and supplement targets they set, and get tested for iron, zinc, vitamin D and thyroid problems rather than guessing. Protect new growth from heat and tension. You cannot speed the hair cycle itself; removing deficiencies and ongoing shocks lets it resume on its own schedule.

Does semaglutide or tirzepatide cause permanent hair loss?

Permanent loss has not been demonstrated. Hair loss was reported more often than placebo in the weight-management trials of both medicines, but the timing and pattern match temporary telogen effluvium from fast weight loss. If you are concerned, speak with the prescribing clinician rather than stopping or adjusting the medicine yourself; the decision about treatment belongs to that prescriber.

How do I know if it is telogen effluvium or hereditary hair loss?

Telogen effluvium is diffuse, follows a trigger by two to four months, and the scalp looks normal; hereditary pattern loss concentrates at the crown or temples, often runs in families and progresses slowly over years. The two can coexist, with the shed unmasking an existing pattern. A dermatologist can distinguish them with a pull test, trichoscopy and, if needed, blood tests.

Should I take biotin for hair loss after surgery?

The evidence does not support it unless you have a documented deficiency, which is rare. The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements rates the data for biotin and hair growth in non-deficient people as insufficient. High-dose biotin can also distort troponin and thyroid test results, so anyone taking it must tell every clinician who orders bloodwork. Ask your clinician before adding any supplement.

References

• Cleveland Clinic: Telogen Effluvium
• MedlinePlus: Hair loss
• NHS: Hair loss

This article is for general information only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Please consult a qualified doctor about your individual situation.